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A British journalist held captive by suspected militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released.

Students from different political affiliations are staging a huge protest at one of India's top universities over plans to introduce CCTV.

A roadside bomb kills nine people and injures at least four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border, reports say.

A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.

The plight of Commonwealth Games workers in Delhi

Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".

At least 10 people die in a US missile strike targeting militants in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border, security officials say.

Sri Lankan MPs overwhelmingly approve proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship.

Essex cricket player Danish Kaneria is cleared by police in an investigation into match irregularities.

A man appears in court in Mumbai in connection with a bomb blast at a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune six months ago.

Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.

The UK's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office says.

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

An Indian court tells Vodafone it has to pay $2.6bn in tax for its takeover of Hutchison Telecom's Indian phone assets.

Afghan boys dressed in women's clothes and sexually abused

The US Afghan commander warns troops' lives will be at risk if a US church goes ahead with plans to burn the Koran, concerns echoed by the White House and Nato.

At least 16 people are killed as a car bomb explodes near a police base in north-west Pakistan, in the second deadly attack on police in as many days.

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka paves the way for greater presidential powers to go before parliament without a referendum.

One of Britain's most prestigious think tanks calls for fundamental change to Western policy in Afghanistan.

Affluent but tiny Indian community hopes romance can stop decline